Difficult to say... as
more people join workforce and consumption and savings, both, increase with
increasing investment and automation, we would use saved-skilled labour, too,
labour supply would go up to lower wages, prices and interest rate which would increase
investment and employment and demand and supply and growth expectations or
potential growth rate... Capital and labor saving technical progress would
reduce cost and prices and increase competitiveness and demand, only, if lower
input costs are transmitted to lower consumer prices... Lower borrowing cost is
equally important; more savings would help, due to higher real wages and
incomes... Automation also demands skills which increase productivity and real
wages and demand and growth and expectations, investment in skill development
is crucial... Zero interest rate is acceptable but not subprime lending... If
we calculate borrowing cost in the inflation index it is a major cost... Zero
rates would maximize investment and employment... If supply and demand
increases side by side, they might converge in the same direction and keep the
objective of price stability and full employment... lower wages would help
clear the labour market and lower interest rate would help clear the capital or
money market... and that would happen when we would save capital and labour,
without involuntary unemployment by increasing specialization in skills and
technical progress or innovation through more investment at low borrowing cost
and wage cost...
We want data on income share between capital
and labour, on those who employ (rich, middle and lower) and who are employed
(rich, middle and poor) (3*3)... ie the capital-labor share ratio or
labour-capital share ratio to define its effect on inequality and demand and
growth... Labour supply or (un/)employment and demand is likely to come from
those with higher propensity to consume, middle and lower, and savings and
investment and supply from all, but mainly the rich and the middle class...
Nonetheless, unless poor people save, they've low capacity to invest in
education and skills and get productive jobs, and other means to get a
specialization... Unless productivity increases wages would stick at the
minimum or subsistence or standard living... Higher population or labourforce
and poor skills have depressed incomes and exaggerated the problem of
unemployment... INDIA's youth population, its biggest asset, is a big liability
too... As more people would join the workforce every year the problem of low
investment and less jobs are going to be big problem... More people in the
working age even skilled, but unemployed, would increase cost and voluntary
unemployment... Return of the visa holders would aggravate the problem of cost
and unemployment...
Notwithstanding, the distribution
of national or output should be according to productivity or capital/output
ratio or labour/income ratio, otherwise growth could not be justified on per
capita income which is national output / workforce population, but it doesn't
reflect equality because some earn more than others for even less time spent on
the job, however, not everybody is paid hourly or daily, even when the business
is dependent on some particular kind of job... like the food industry... not
all the cooks earn most... similarly in a manufacturing job labors earn less
than those who have invested the borrowed money on their savings... However, everybody is constrained by time...
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